High quality health care will be critical to attaining the Sustainable Development Goals in low- and middle income countries. However, little is known on levels of quality and its distribution within…
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Medicine & Health High-Quality Health Systems
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Medicine & Health NTD Modeling Consortium: Insights on data needs
As Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) programs move towards the 2020 goals, there is a need to strengthen data collection and evaluation for decision making. Mathematical modeling has an important role…
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Medicine & Health Non-Communicable Diseases and Maternal Health Around the Globe
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) account for almost 65% of women’s deaths around the globe, and three quarters of women’s deaths caused by NCDs occur in low- and middle-income countries…
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Medicine & Health Neglected Populations: Decreasing Inequalities & Improving Measurement in Maternal Health
In order to address the need to reduce inequalities and showcase necessary measurement improvements to uncover them, the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) is partnering for the fourth time with PLOS…
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Medicine & Health Replication of influential studies evaluating interventions for HIV prevention and treatment
Three decades of work on HIV prevention and treatment have yielded effective biomedical, behavioral, social, and structural interventions in controlled trials. Few of these have been adopted at a…
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Biology & Life Sciences GLBIO 2019
The 14th Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2019 (GLBIO) took place at the University of Wisconsin at Madison from May 19th to 22nd. The conference was organized by the Great Lakes Bioinformatics…
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Earth & Environment Measuring Forest Conservation Effectiveness
Scholars and practitioners have repeatedly called for more and better impact evaluation of conservation policies. This PLOS ONE collection brings together a series of studies that evaluate the…
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Biology & Life Sciences WorldLeish-6
There are currently 350 million people in 98 countries at risk of developing leishmaniasis, the vector-borne parasitic disease caused by various species of trypanosomatid protozoa in the genus of…
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Medicine & Health WHO Estimates of the Global Burden of Foodborne Diseases
Illness and death from diseases caused by contaminated food are a constant threat to public health and a significant impediment to socio-economic development worldwide. To measure the global and…
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Medicine & Health DREAMS: a partnership to reduce HIV acquisition among adolescent girls and young women and generate lessons for prevention
The DREAMS Partnership is a large investment by PEPFAR and private sector partners to promote empowerment and prevent HIV acquisition through a core package of interventions for young women, their…